Mary Kenny
Michelangelo’s Pietà is seen in St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. Photo: CNS / Lola
Gomez. We used to call them ‘holy pictures’ back in the long-ago days of my convent education – cheap little copies of paintings by Raphael and Botticelli, on which we schoolgirls would write messages to each other on the obverse side. And now I realise how influential these images were in illuminating the epic events of…
